Image 2 of 2 CAIRO – The torturers followed a schedule.
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The torturers were testing the veracity of the victim's claims.
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Salvadoran man named Dr. Juan Romagoza testified that his Salvadoran torturers,
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We see batterers as merely angry, whereas we acknowledge torturers as cruel.
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The violence done to the hero's body by his torturers seemed gratuitous.
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Op-Ed Contributor MELBOURNE, Australia — Governments tend to dislike being called torturers.
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He called on his torturers to come forward and explain their actions.
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This term of art is employed against pirates, slavers and, recently, torturers.
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Mr al-Bounni adds that he wants the torturers not to feel safe.
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Murderers bought groceries at the supermarket, torturers waited in line at the bank.
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Billions of dollars spent creating security partners also deputized pedophiles, torturers and thieves.
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We often think of torturers, for example, as thugs from the dregs of society.
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So, like Veronica, she could identify with the victims, and identify with the torturers.
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"The same torturers are still there," laments a veteran of the UN's Human Rights Council.
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But we would no longer be complicit with torturers and terrorists whenever we purchase petrol.
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She was one of the first victims to make a public declaration against her torturers.
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After the Khmer Rouge victory, they became the guards, torturers and executioners of Tuol Sleng.
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Another prisoner gave the AP what he said were the real names of five Emirati torturers.
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An accountant for the gang lied under oath to try and protect one of the torturers.
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There was thus created what can be called a malignant normality in a subculture of torturers.
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But in the process it raised a deeper human question: What drove these killers and torturers?
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"Generals there landed in prison, torturers were detained and sentenced," Mr. Valente said in an interview.
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Harmless Torturers never go that far; we just like, retweet and add the occasional clever remark.
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We later heard from another prisoner that Javier's torturers broke all the bones in his face.
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To use words to serve the cause of human unfreedom is grotesque, like a physician serving torturers.
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The newspaper said Khashoggi's torturers severed his fingers during the interrogation and later beheaded and dismembered him.
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They preceded the torturers and assassins in the science of organized cruelty that we call the Holocaust.
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Khashoggi was killed within minutes and his torturers severed his fingers during the interrogation, the newspaper said.
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The original sin remains, providing both cover to torturers and a pathway to future U.S. crimes against humanity.
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The next day, two of his torturers walked in to the commission and owned up to their crimes.
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It reported that his torturers severed his fingers during an interrogation, and that Khashoggi was killed within minutes.
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Then his torturers made him choose: Give up his colleagues and confess to plotting, or face further abuse.
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"It hurts to have to give amnesty to confessed murderers of police officers and to torturers," he added.
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The president has sent mixed signals about global torturers and kleptocrats, chiding some while praising others as "tremendous" allies.
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But when Obama offered legal impunity for torturers and continued warrantless surveillance apace, relatively little grassroots Democratic opposition emerged.
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In the film Adi Rukun comes face to face with the alleged torturers and killers of his three siblings.
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It wasn't an issue for him, ultimately; he eventually became director, where he could defend torturers at greater length.
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He often belittles women, has praised the old military regime's torturers and goads the police to kill more criminal suspects.
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The group of four IS jailers and torturers were nicknamed the "Beatles" by their foreign prisoners because of their British accents.
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I prayed for the fortitude to bear as much pain as my torturers could inflict until they broke from inflicting it.
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Ban torture, and pursue a "reckoning" for the torturers, in the words of Obama's soon-to-be attorney general, Eric Holder.
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The verdict proves that Myanmar has become a nation of torturers," but warned "there is little chance that Myanmar will listen.
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Other torturers named by detainees are Emirati officers known to prisoners by their noms de guerre: Abu Udai, Abu Ismail, and Hitler.
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"They were talking about a repeal of sanctions so that Russian torturers and murderers could keep their money in America," Browder testified.
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I know they will say whatever they think their torturers want them to say if they believe it will stop their suffering.
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Parfit first considered a simpler scenario in which a thousand torturers each turn the dial a thousand times on their own victim.
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Parfit never tells us what motivates the torturers in his thought experiment, but there are a lot of considerations in everyday life.
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Trump's untruth is timeless because, throughout history, dictators, crooks and torturers have attacked journalists who have brought the truth to the people.
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"For the corrupt, the murderers and the torturers, the international community must reply with the greatest severity," he said in a news release.
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The project's first outing for the New York techno-torturers at Bank Records more or less lays out what that means in practice.
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"The Vatican was O.K. with Dom Paulo's activism against torturers, but it had difficulty with his support of liberation theology," Professor Bingemer said.
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One survivor, Raheem Moussavi, stood beside a bloodied mannequin and slowly detailed the four different techniques the Iranian torturers used to beat him.
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The two torturers who came forward, both retired officers, have offered to publicly confirm his account, including a shocking description of sexual abuse.
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Guatemala and the U.S. are bound by the U.N. Convention Against Torture, which bans torture, without exceptions, and requires that torturers be prosecuted.
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In one, torturers attached a man's mouth to the carburetor of a car with the engine running and left the man to die.
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Pro-government Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak, citing the audio, said his torturers cut off his fingers during an interrogation and later beheaded him.
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Mr Ibrahim and his fellow activists are turning to the German judiciary because there is little chance that their torturers will be prosecuted elsewhere.
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Pro-government Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak, citing the audio, has said his torturers cut off his fingers during an interrogation and later beheaded him.
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Yet, thinking he might have more, torturers forged ahead with Mr. Zubaydah and with others, confident that physical abuse would lead to actionable intelligence.
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"Don't reward torturers," he yelled as he struggled with police officers and was forcibly removed from the hearing room before Ms. Haspel sat down.
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In a scene still indelible after so many years, I sat in a courtroom as the torturers of the young student went on trial.
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The leader of the largest liberal Jewish congregation in Latin America, he took a stand when a journalist was killed by his torturers in 103.
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Rached Jaïdane, 56, a former political prisoner who has faced his torturers in a continuing case in the special court, welcomed the publication of the report.
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Millions flooded the streets of Seoul, the capital, and other big cities to protest over the death of a student at the hands of the strongman's torturers.
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In a turn of events that horrified the victims of the dictatorship, Alfonsín pushed through the Full Stop Law in 234, essentially granting amnesty to many torturers.
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These cues also preemptively sanction the legitimacy of abuse for those who are bystanders, whether the CIA torturers in the room or the audience behind the screen.
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The only way to ensure that physicians never again become torturers and killers is for them to be vigilant about humanizing every patient in every interaction, Eckert said.
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"You need to hear from the torturers themselves," says Richard Kammen, Mr Nashiri's chief lawyer, who for decades has defended, with notable success, Americans facing the death penalty.
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Murderers and torturers in search of instant fame and glory take advantage of live-streaming and ranking algorithms to broadcast graphic crimes with the swipe of a thumb.
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In some cases, the suspects said they had provided nothing more than their thumbprints to sign off on confessions which they claimed had been written by their torturers.
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Perhaps more importantly, the fact of that mobilization before his presidency did not prevent Obama from going light on torturers or continuing warrantless surveillance in the first place.
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But then he explores a contrasting case where each of the torturers turns a dial a thousand times — each turn shocking a different one of the thousand victims.
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It's much easier to say that Carrère writes about darkness, about tragedy, about villainy, murder, sorrow and loss, about tortured people and torturers, with the torturer sometimes himself.
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Iraqi troops arrived in Tulul al Nasir early one morning, but the family wasn't even aware that they had, at last, been liberated from their torturers until that evening.
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One of the first things he did was to visit the room with iron hooks where he had been tortured as a guerrilla; now the torturers worked for him.
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He painted a barnstorming composition of the martyrdom of the saints Processus and Martinian, whose nude bodies, splayed on the rack, bisect a deluge of torturers, mourners and angels.
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Today, in 2018, the two authors of this article are Harmless Torturers, and you — regardless of which side of any particular issue you are on — probably are one, too.
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The colonisers would leave behind a dystopian system, prone to wars and coups, held together by secret policemen, torturers and petrodollars, and supported by cold-war sponsors and foreign soldiers.
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Under these conditions, it seems it has gotten easier to be an advocate of the far right, praising convicted torturers as if they saved the country from much worse terror.
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At trial, she cited her growing concerns over the U.S. military's collaboration with torturers and the "seemingly delightful bloodlust" of U.S. aerial weapons teams as primary motivation for the leak.
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I've seen the duo—composed of Tommi Kelly and Danny Orlowski—play their chaotic punk-techno tracks at hardcore shows and techno clubs, opening for indie rock acts and industrial torturers.
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But Harmless Torturers can just as easily swarm the weak; the mobbing can be based on lies and confusions or ignorantly encouraged by powerful celebrities and politicians, including, notably, the current president.
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Turkish pro-government newspaper Yeni Safak has published what it said were details from the audio, including that his torturers severed Khashoggi's fingers during an interrogation and later beheaded and dismembered him.
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Over the past few years executioners and torturers from Latin America's dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s have at last been brought to account, despite amnesty laws that were the price of democracy.
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In Libya, his torturers targeted him for being a Christian; he's worried that the Eritreans in his community, too, will face further danger if they fall back into the hands of human traffickers.
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" Pompeo also implicitly supported torture by declaring that CIA officers accused of mistreating detainees were "not torturers, they [were] patriots" and that the acts of torture and ill treatment "were within the law.
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Saudi King Abdullah (Oct 21989) Protesters shouted "murderers", "torturers", and "shame on you" when King Abdullah was driven in a gilded horse-drawn coach through central London during his state visit in 2007.
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For 61 years, Mr. Audin's widow, Josette, has battled the French state to have her husband's killing recognized as the murderous work of military torturers during a critical phase of the Algerian War.
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If the women's battle lays bare how routine police torture has become in Mexico, it also reveals the impunity torturers often enjoy when victims try to hold them and their supervisors to account.
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"Oh brave people of Manbij, our forces are coming to liberate you from the shackles of the Daesh terrorist torturers," said the statement, using an acronym for Islamic State also known as ISIS or ISIL.
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This month, though, El Salvador's top court struck down key parts of the law in a remarkable ruling that opens the door for relatives of victims of war crimes to hold torturers and killers accountable.
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"The pervasiveness of torture in Afghanistan makes its criminalization and the prosecution of alleged torturers an urgent priority," Human Rights Watch senior researcher Patricia Gossman wrote in a post calling for the annex to be enacted.
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"They generated a sort of hellish atmosphere," said Ms. Méndez, a former kindergarten teacher who was part of an antidictatorship organization at the time, recalling how torturers cranked up the radio to drown out the cries.
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In the 23s, Mr. Manafort's work for clients such as the Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi was cited in a human rights watchdog report, "The Torturers' Lobby," which examined Washington consultants who catered to brutal regimes.
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"The concern we have always had about diplomatic assurances is that it's a promise not to torture from torturers," said Naureen Shah, director of Amnesty International USA's Security & Human Rights program, after reviewing the DOD IG report.
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"They were talking about repealing the Magnitsky Act so that Russian torturers and murderers could freely travel and keep their money in the U.S." Meanwhile, Republicans were scheming to push the "skinny" Obamacare repeal through the Senate.
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"The significance of the arrests is that the trials are going to be the first time that torturers and victims are going to come face to face in a court of law," said Mazen Darwish, a Syrian lawyer.
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Along with other Syrians who suffered a similar fate, he has now offered to testify to the office of Germany's federal prosecutor in Karlsruhe, in the hope that his torturers will one day face justice in German courts.
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Drawing on the experiences of transitional justice processes in South Africa, Latin America, Poland and other places, the commission decided against bringing victims face to face with their former torturers, since it can make them relive their trauma.
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But this implies a curious conclusion: that if we, like Ford, think the gift of consciousness comes from ourselves (and not from something divine or otherwise not replicable by humans), that we are bound to be our own torturers.
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As president, Ms. Rousseff has refused to seek vengeance against her torturers, and she was widely praised for backing a National Truth Commission that exposed the abuses of the era but did not mete out punishments to the accused.
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" The description reminded me, unnervingly, of the recent documentary "The Act of Killing," in which Indonesian torturers brag about their sick acts, which they justify with semantics: the word "gangster," they explain, comes from the word for "free man.
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"Taking action against those who work for the ICC sends a clear message to torturers and murderers alike: Their crimes may continue unchecked," the group's Washington director, Andrea Prasow, said, calling on U.S. lawmakers to express support for the court.
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Two centuries have passed since the Federation defeated the Empire, and now the Empire has prepared its revenge in the form of robotic sleeper cells that implant the personalities of its spies and torturers into the bodies of innocent Federation citizens.
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One of the most brutal torturers is Yemeni, a former prisoner called Awad al-Wahsh, who was detained and tortured before agreeing to work with the Emiratis, four witnesses told the AP. His supervisor, Yosran al-Maqtari, could not be reached for comment.
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In Brazil, for example, torture was a stepping stone, turning one man into the ambassador to Paraguay and another into a general, while doctors advising the torturers in Uruguay could draw salaries four times as high as those of doctors who did not.
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The top U.N. human rights official called on March 14 for tens of thousands of detainees in Syria to be released and for torturers and executioners to be brought to justice as part of a lasting agreement to end its civil war.
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Injuries he suffered at the hands of torturers left him with lifelong physical disabilities, but Mr. McCain turned down an offer of early release because he did not want to harm morale among his fellow prisoners or give North Vietnam a propaganda coup.
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He named one of his torturers, the chief warden of one prison, who he said had overseen a brutal regime of sexual abuse of prisoners that was worse than anything that occurred in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq war.
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He came to prominence in Brazil in 1975, after Vladimir Herzog, the news director of a São Paulo television station, was murdered in prison by his military torturers a few hours after he was arrested, accused of being part of a Communist network.
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When my Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was murdered after uncovering a $230 million tax fraud in Russia, the U.S. government responded with the Magnitsky Act -- a 21st century law which bans killers, torturers and kleptocrats from entering the U.S. and using its financial system.
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This was a man who led what the Center for Public Integrity dubbed "The Torturers' Lobby" nearly thirty years ago, rummaging for work among the most heinous governments that emerged in the late stage of the Cold War, with hands out, looking for American largesse.
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The medieval painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti "focused attention" on the evils of bad government; Caravaggio showed us cardsharps and torturers; Goya made heart-rending prints of the evils of war — and none of them ever thought that such ills would end once they'd revealed them.
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" Elsewhere, a group of naked American torturers with erections, surrounding a hooded victim, is laconically lamented: "They brought their game with them, and what they didn't learn back in the States in their black box of growing up, they learnt as they went along.
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"As well as being young women, these barbaric cases are similar in that the two adolescents had been attracted by their torturers in premeditated plots and have been violently attacked in the context of illicit drug use," said Nadine Gasman, of UN Women in Brazil.
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Daily life was dominated by rumor and the horror stories brought by new arrivals: the professor made to recite the alphabet by former students who had become his torturers; an old newspaperman's son who was hung from a ceiling fan and beaten until his back was broken.
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In a very real sense, Golub's human monsters — his hired killers and cretinous torturers — are as mythic as his two-headed sphinx, embodying a recidivism that defies all appeals to humanity and reason, an indelible part of our past that remains locked into the foreseeable future.
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They will not stand for our elections being decided by foreign powers, our national unity and democratic alliances being ripped apart by a hyperpartisan president, or our commander in chief expressing admiration for dictators, mass murderers, torturers and human rights abusers who would destroy the American way of life.
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"Only when we will have the truth about why and who killed Giulio, when we are given, alive, his torturers and all their accomplices, only then can the ambassador return to Cairo without trampling on our dignity," the family said in a statement, according to Ansa news agency.
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Bambii's deft use of the 2001 track—which was infamously played repeatedly by torturers at Guantanamo Bay a few years after its release—was the latest example of DJs reaching back to macho-emoting, early aughts alt-rock and nu-metal for a left-field twist in their sets.
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CNN wrote that Sabah reported Saudi torturers only later realized the implication of the Apple Watch on Khashoggi's wrist and attempted to delete some of the recordings after accessing the device using his fingerprints:Security forces leading the investigation found the audio file inside the phone Khashoggi left with his fiancé, according to Sabah.
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Odious as it may be to allow drug traffickers, torturers and violators of human rights to walk free, more odious is the thought that the Maduro government could survive and, like the Castros in Cuba, consolidate a communist, totalitarian military dictatorship that would violate the human rights of a people for generations.
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He painted archetypes rescued and blended from both universal and iconoclastic mythologies — mothers and kings, torturers, bound and flayed captives, fish and birds, hybrid creatures, himself, his wife, friends and strangers, who gather with a spectrum of props: costumes, masks, stringed and brass instruments, formal dress, and most ubiquitously, a lit cigarette in hand.
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After a brush with Watergate, Mr. Stone pokes around here and there; works for both of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaigns; and helps establish a firm that grew into Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, one of a number of companies that earned the nickname "the torturers' lobby" for repping countries condemned as human-rights abusers.
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He has advocated loosening gun ownership laws so individuals can fight off criminals, giving police a freer hand to use force and restoring "traditional" Brazilian values — though some take issue with his definition of those values in light of his approving allusions to dictatorship era torturers and his derisive comments about women, blacks and gay people.
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As Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE has made clear in not pursuing criminal charges against CIA and other torturers, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the lot are free to enjoy their retirement.
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The prevailing theory I submit to my own personal hell-court is that Borowitz name-searched himself at some point and saw my tweets accusing him of having "mentally exhausting 25-minute workday," proposing "they" should use his columns to lull people to death in the Soylent Green factory, or that torturers should read off his headlines to extract secrets from captured spies.
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SÃO PAULO, Brazil — For a liberal woman like me, it's hard to understand why anyone would vote for a presidential candidate who has been described by international publications as "racist, homophobic and sexist" (Libération), "a threat to democracy" (The Economist), a "Trump of the tropics" (The Guardian), "a xenophobe" (Clarín) and a sympathizer with "military dictatorships and torturers" who has "openly expressed fascist ideas" (Zeit).
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"They were talking about repealing the Magnitsky Act so that Russian torturers and murderers could freely travel and keep their money in the U.S." Browder alleged that not only was Veselnitskaya the point person for the Kremlin, but that Rinat Akhmetshin, the Russian-American lobbyist who is believed to have worked with a Russian counterintelligence unit and was also present in the meeting, was also working on behalf of Moscow.
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